It's definitely nice to not have the captchas take up an active encounter, but I feel like I'm seeing them SO much more now, and I still don't like that they take away what I think is another riddle to answer or a gift and that annoys me the same way the active encounter thing did. Why can't the captchas just be made their own thing?
The update to the referral system is really awesome though! I love that. Happy for the Vaer Sea Forage update as well, and looking forward to a fix to the score bug.